It was seven months ago when investigators first moved in on the Delmar home of law clerk Peter Porco. On Nov. 15, he was found bludgeoned to death, and his wife Joan was brutally beaten. No one has been charged, or even arrested. Answers remain few and far between. But their son Christopher Porco, 21, has been called a "person of interest."
As for what's new, at a news conference this week DA David Soares said that the grand jury hearing evidence in the Porco case has now been extended -- but Soares wouldn't say for how long.
Attorney Paul DerOhanessian said that a grand jury extension is not unusual and typically runs anywhere from three to six months. Sometimes, if an extension is filed for less time than that, it could mean movement in the case.
DerOhanessian said, "Ordinarily a prosecutor who anticipates an indictment in the near future will request only a shorter extension."
An Albany County case that isn't even in the courts yet is the May murder of a 14-year-old girl who never made it to Hackett Middle School. Gretchen Perham was stabbed to death and left in a wooded area.
In a case police are calling "similar," another 14-year-old Hackett Middle School student was attacked by a man carrying a butcher's knife. After that, Perham's case went national with a spot on the show America's Most Wanted.
Host John Walsh -- in town to film a commercial on Tuesday -- said the spot led to more than a dozen calls and that they'll be looking into a potentially helpful surveillance tape from that butcher's knife attack several weeks ago.
There are several unresolved, high profile crimes in Albany County. One is the murder of Gretchen Perham. Another is the murder of Peter Porco.
Albany Police Det. James Miller said, "We had the surveillance tape that was turned over to us from the VA Hospital that actually shot down into the area where the girl was attacked."
America's Most Wanted has that tape because of technology they use to make a video picture clearer.